Our HobBy Hut

Tag: gardening

  • Design a raised-bed garden

    Like I said last week, Planning a garden is not easy, it does take a good amount of work since there are so many details involved. Growing a garden for a family of 7 plus pets takes a lot more planning than it would for a family of 2 or 3. With what we have…

  • Garden Starting

    In life so far I have learned that it is better to start your planning early so you can calculate the messes and the hiccups that inevitably come with every single thing you try to do. Planning a garden for a family of roughly 7 or 8 give or take if we have visitors or…

  • The IN between

    It’s now fall and half winter . . Yesterday, the kids helped make those oreo ball things you see on Google sometimes. . .we didn’t have chocolate chips, so we used Lindor truffle candy bars and . . .lets just say they are just a little too sweet to eat a whole one . .…

  • Tomato malfunction

    Well,  when you have a solid plan and you had that tease of success with your first try. . . .then you get the courage to process more for a bigger future, yeild to help feed the family. You make the plan, you get that plan started you feel so confident cuz you did it…

  • My herb drying test

    I know it doesnt look like much now but the vision is had for this mess of string is a bit better looking when it will be full of those drying herbs. I threw in a sneak peak with it being used so it does work and I will do a tutorial post in January…

  • Tomato seed harvest

    I was sent a small tomato harvest from a viewer and was told to do what we can with them. . . . We extracted the gel covered seeds and water bathed them for several days. This is the first batch of seed that i got from some very juicy tomatoes at my job. I…

  • Drying and Planting

    I have been really into learning how to make our home more self sufficient and . . .home made, i know whats in the food i make, sort of thing. . .30 is a wild year. . . I went to the store and found some good quality but low priced prodcuts on the market…

  • Fall tree starting

    I saw a seed starting video on facebook from one of my homesteading idols and he used like 7 or 8 of the big 5 gallon buckets and sand to start tree seedlings over the winter. With bigger buckets you can produce 1,000’s at a time, but we are small and just getting started with…

  • Pet treats from home

    Severaly events have taken place latley that have given me the opportunity to take a little time off from the regular job world. Since I am still horrified about driving on snowy roads this works in my favor and i wont have to drive much during the yuckiest part of our winter here in Montana.…